SitePoint Books Around the World: Giant Cows, Surfers & Bodybuilders

SitePoint, a publisher of Web Development books, has annouunced the winner of its "Around the World" competition which SitePoint book customers to submit photos of themselves with their favorite SitePoint book in exotic locales, with famous people or local landmarks.

Quartz Hill, CA (PRWEB) October 2, 2004 -- SitePoint, a publisher of Web Development books, has annouunced the winner of its "Around the World" competition which had SitePoint book customers to submit photos of themselves with their favorite SitePoint book in exotic locales, with famous people or at local landmarks.

The top of Mt. Fuji, Acropolis, Equator, set of NBC News, and the Austrian Alps are just a few of the locations where SitePoint customers posed with their books. The winner received an Apple iPod.

"We were extremely pleased by the huge response this contest received and the amount of creativeness displayed by our customers with their submissions," said Matt Mickiewicz, Co-Founder of SitePoint.

Nearly 150 submissions were received from such diverse places as India, France, South Korea, Saudi Arabia and Japan. In total, customers from 24 different countries submitted photos.

The winner, "Hawaiibuff," submitted a picture of herself holding a SitePoint Book while surfing in Hawaii.

Runner-ups included submissions with Elvis & Marilyn Monroe impersonators in Las Vegas, the Seattle Space Needle, the tallest buildings in the world in Kuala Lumpur, Microsoft Headquarters, and a giant cow in North Dakota.

To view entries and winners, go to:
http://www.sitepoint.com/competition/ipod_competition/ipod_win_21-09-04.php

ABOUT SITEPOINT
SitePoint specializes in publishing fun, practical, and easy-to-understand content for web professionals. Its popular online magazine and print books teach best practices to web developers and designers worldwide. It's Website at SitePoint.com offers articles, tutorials, blogs and forums.

SitePoint Books are distributed in North America through O'Reilly, and will be available in bookstores starting this October.

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